TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 
charge; but keeps on it's way ; so that a sense- 
less impulse, more than rage, seems the cause 
of the mischief it does, 
" This was the species described by Mar- 
tial, under the name of Rhinoceros Cornu 
Gemino; who relates it's combat with the 
Bear. In fact, the Romans procured their 
Rhinoceroses from Africa only; which was 
the reason why they are represented with 
double horns. That figured in the Prenestine 
Pavement, and that on a Coin of Domitian, 
have two horns; that which Pausanias de- 
scribes under the name of the ^Ethiopian Bull, 
had one horn on the nose, and another, lesser, 
higher up; and Cosmas ^gypticus, who tra- 
velled into Ethiopia, in the reign of Justinian, 
also attributes to it the same number; whereas 
Pliny, who describes the Indian kind, justly 
gives it but a single horn. Cosmas says, that 
it's skin was so thick and hard, that the 
Ethiopians ploughed with it; and, that they 
called the animal Aru, and Harifi ; the last 
signitying the figure of the nostrils, and the 
use made of the skin. He adds that, when 
the beast is quiescent, the horns are loose: but, 
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